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caudil, which therefore takes its place in the tahles of my original 

 paper as an Atlantic species." An examination of my series of both 

 fully confirms this view. On my No. 8G7, from Grain, E. Kent, 

 gathered in 1892,. Prof. Hackel, naming it as " Glyceria Foucauilu 

 Hackel in litt. ad Foucaud (n. sp.) " — Foueaud described it under 

 Atropis, in Bull. Soc. Bot. Rochelle, 1893, p. 43— added this interest- 

 ing comment in a letter to Mr. Arthur Bennett : — " You may distin- 

 gnish it from all the congeners (it comes next to G. mar it i ma) by 

 the silky pubescence of the nerves of the flowering glumes, and by 

 the ciliated upper ]>alea, &c." This ciliation tends to wear off, with 

 age. I have several sheets from the Kentish station, besides specimens 

 from Mudeford, S. Hants {E. F. Linton), Chichester Harbour, 

 W. Sussex ( G. C. Driice), and Auginish Island, Foj-nes, Co. Limerick 

 (Miss 31. G. Knowles). — Edward S. Marshall. 



Pedi^n'ophtllum i:j^terruptum (Nees) Lindberg. The late 

 Dr. Carrington in his Britisli HepaticcB, p. 53, gave Ardingly Rocks, 

 Sussex, as a station for this species, which I quoted in my Jlcpaticce 

 of the British Isles, p. 270. Mr. W. E. Nicholson in his " Hepatics 

 of Sussex," 1911, says "There is a note in HI). Davies questioning 

 this record, which is inherently improbable, as it is unlikely that so 

 markedl}^ calcicolous a plant should be found on the sandstone at 

 Ardingly." In the Manchester Museum there is a specimen marked 

 " Plaffiochila interntpta Ardingly Rocks; Mitten's J. tricJio- 

 onanioides, Gr. Davies, on loam : Plagiocliila pyrenaica Spruce ! 

 var. of Flag, interrupta B. C." I have had the opportunity of 

 examining the specimen and find it is a form of F. asplenioides : the 

 firm stem, some of the leaves denticulate (which is never the case 

 with any form of F. interruptum), the absence of stipules, confirm 

 Mr. Nicholson's conjecture. — Wm. Ht. Pearson. 



Panicum sanguinale L. This plant is not included in the 

 London Catalogue although it is abundant over most of Jersey, on 

 the borders of roads, in waste places and in semi-cultivated helds. 

 Mr. Lester-Garland who is very cautious as to the status of a plant 

 states in his Flora of Jersey that " it is native in all probability," 

 and Messrs. Stanley Guiton and T. W. Attenborough who have worked 

 at the flora of the Island for 'many years are of the same opinion. 

 As it is frequent in Normandy and Brittany and common further 

 south, there is nothing from a geographical point of view against its 

 being native in Jersey. It is suggested that its absence from the 

 London Catalogue is due to its omission in the Friinitice Florce 

 Sarnicce, but for the reasons given by Mr. Lester-Garland in his 

 introduction to his Flora of Jersey the inclusion or exclusion of a 

 plant in the Friinitice is very slight evidence one way or the other. 

 Here again Messrs. Guiton and Attenborough concur in Mr. Lester- 

 Garland's statements. I have been many times to Jersey during the 

 flowering season of this plant, and it always seemed to me that it had 

 as much right to be considered native as the bulk of the rest of the 

 Flora. The form /i ciliare Trin. also occurs in the island, but there 

 as in France less frequently than the type. — Edward Walter 



